I talk with Maxim about a range of issues from writing and thinking, to narratives and productivity.

As Org Social grows, users follow more feeds, and individual social.org files accumulate hundreds of posts over time. Traditional approaches that down

A little over a week ago, I introduced time-zones, an Emacs utility to easily check city times around the world. Today, I'm happy to report, the packa...

I found a potentially useful package that creates a visual …

As part of a trip to see her friend, my mom went to a show …

Moving my computing needs into Emacs has this weird effect that spending maintenance time in Emacs, I can improve both how I do stuff with the computer, and also what stuff I work on itself.

Creating blog posts from Emacs is my prefered method. I had a whole setup built around doing this for Hugo, but since I just switched to Zola I needed to move things around.
Here’s where I ended up:…

Truth be told, I find default Ediff to be weird and intimidating compared to other tools that do the same thing, which is to find differences between two files. Like other modes, Ediff is...

I think I’ll try something. I think I’ll try using only CLI and TUI apps during the month of November…

Since I’m using Using only CLI and TUI apps in November, I needed to find a replacement for Mu4e in Emacs. As a long-time Mutt user, I assumed that’s what I’d use. A couple people recommended that I try aerc instead…